Travels with the Original Easyrider®
2014 Edition

The Salmonberry Trail
An 86 mile Rails-To-Trails project
Banks, Oregon to Tillamook

The Salmonberry Trail is not curently in a condition where the segments can be
done in a logical succession. So the casual reader may find the trail report updates
to be rather out of order. If I live long enough to see this trail project completed,
I'll update this trail report with a more coherent order. For now, segment distances
are at lengths of 5-10 miles each or, in the case of major bushwhacking, 6-8 hours
of hiking. I have no car shuttle capabilites or else the segment lengths would be
more like 10-14 miles each.

Segment 1: Banks to Buxton
Segment 2: Buxton to Scofield
Segment 3: Scofield to Timer
Segment 4: Timber to Cochran
Segment 5: Cochran to Belding
Segment 6: Belding to Enright
Segment 7: Enright to Belfort
Segment 8: Belfort to Salmonberry
Segment 9: Salmonberry to Rector
Segment 10: Rector to Batterson
Segment 11: Batterson to Knudson
Segment 12: Knudson to Mohler
Segment 13 - x: Mohler to Tillamook

A 86 mile hike with x,xxx' of elevation gain
Done in x segments
March 7 2014 - x, x, 201x

2014 RUNNING TALLY
Miles hiked= xxx; Total elevation gain= xx,xxx'
2013 Totals: 246.55 miles, 59,412' elevation gain
2012 Totals: 367.58 miles, 101,161' elevation gain

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This rail line isn't dead yet! Steaming to Salmonberry.

The Salmonberry Trail corridor follows the old Pacific Railway and Navigation Co. line.
It starts in Banks, cuts across remote areas of the Coast Range, follows the Salmonberry
River, then the Nehalem River to the coast, where it turns south to Tillamook.

The rail line was washed out by floods in 1991 and was rebuilt at a cost of $50 million.
It flooded again in 2007 and remains unusable, with twisted rails and ties strewn in
"a mess,".

This project is still in the planning stages so it will likely take several years
to turn this concept into reality. I'll be posting updates to this page as they
become available. If you remember, the Banks-Vernonia Linear Trail was pretty
"primative" when I first started documenting it in 2010. It's now a mostly completed,
dandy hiking trail. Ditto for the Crown Zellerbach Trail.



There is an excellent trail report posted by Jim Thayer HERE.

According to my Nat Geo map, it looks like the rail line starts at the Banks
Trailhead for the Banks-Vernonia Linear Park. I've been down this way before...
stopped at the point where the rail line crosses Highway 47 just past Buxton.

I think I'll probably do my initial exploration at the Foss Road bridge since that
area seems a lot more interesting and problematic.

First Scouting Mission.

I probably won't live long enough to document the entire rail line, much less live
to see what the Oregon Parks guys to to fix this trail up. But I'll press on with
style all the same.



The Coast to Salmonberry/



Salmonberry to Belding.



Belding to Timber.



Timber to Banks.




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